LOTHAR HEMPEL
SENZA FINE
November 13 to December 18, 2021
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Photos © Patxi Bergé
Lothar Hempel
Senza Fine
Senza Fine (Italian for without end) stands for a beginning without a destination, an ongoing journey that leaves its origin and purpose open – a way of seeing the world that does not want to foreclose anything. Senza Fine is the title of the exhibition in Mommsenstrasse and also the name of the blog that Lothar Hempel published during this year. The six-part blog, which started at the beginning of 2021 will come to an end in the course of the exhibition, brings together influences, impressions and experiences, which are reflected in drawings, films, sculptures and poems.
The central figure of the exhibition is a freely suspended sculpture in the exhibition space, which can be both, a work of art and a participating visitor. It consists of a white, androgynously-looking head made of stone, wreathed with bleached flowers. It engages in a dialogue with the visitors and with the drawings that surround it. The watercolors, in turn, depict strangely gender-neutral figures in costumes and facets, all of which seem like timeless witnesses to an undefined spectacle. Scenic and cultic actions are depicted, reminiscent of the variety of types in the "Commedia dell'arte" or of the figurines in Hokusai's "Floating Worlds" – at the same time they are images of the present with musical and cinematic references.
In the exhibition, Lothar Hempel allows a direct confrontation with the figures and the characteristics attributed to them. The motifs are of "contemporary archaic". They remain distant and vague in a proud way – a state between intimate proximity and endless uncertainty: Senza Fine.
–Daniel Pfau
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DONKI, 2021
Pencil and watercolour on bristol cardboard
21 x 23 cm
8.2 x 9.1 in
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CRISPA, 2021
Pencil and watercolour on bristol cardboard
21 x 23 cm
8.2 x 9.1 in
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SHON TSI, 2021
Pencil and watercolour on bristol cardboard
21 x 23 cm
8.2 x 9.1 in
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PILU, 2021
Pencil and watercolour on bristol cardboard
21 x 23 cm
8.2 x 9.1 in
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ALONSO SISTERS, 2021
Pencil and watercolour on bristol cardboard
21 x 23 cm
8.2 x 9.1 in
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LOTHAR HEMPEL
SENZA FINE
November 13 to December 18, 2021
° ° ° ° ° ° ° °
Lothar Hempel
Senza Fine
Senza Fine (Italian for without end) stands for a beginning without a destination, an ongoing journey that leaves its origin and purpose open – a way of seeing the world that does not want to foreclose anything. Senza Fine is the title of the exhibition in Mommsenstrasse and also the name of the blog that Lothar Hempel published during this year. The six-part blog, which started at the beginning of 2021 will come to an end in the course of the exhibition, brings together influences, impressions and experiences, which are reflected in drawings, films, sculptures and poems.
The central figure of the exhibition is a freely suspended sculpture in the exhibition space, which can be both, a work of art and a participating visitor. It consists of a white, androgynously-looking head made of stone, wreathed with bleached flowers. It engages in a dialogue with the visitors and with the drawings that surround it. The watercolors, in turn, depict strangely gender-neutral figures in costumes and facets, all of which seem like timeless witnesses to an undefined spectacle. Scenic and cultic actions are depicted, reminiscent of the variety of types in the "Commedia dell'arte" or of the figurines in Hokusai's "Floating Worlds" – at the same time they are images of the present with musical and cinematic references.
In the exhibition, Lothar Hempel allows a direct confrontation with the figures and the characteristics attributed to them. The motifs are of "contemporary archaic". They remain distant and vague in a proud way – a state between intimate proximity and endless uncertainty: Senza Fine.
–Daniel Pfau
Photos © Patxi Bergé
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DONKI, 2021
Pencil and watercolour on bristol cardboard
21 x 23 cm
8.2 x 9.1 in
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CRISPA, 2021
Pencil and watercolour on bristol cardboard
21 x 23 cm
8.2 x 9.1 in
° ° °
SHON TSI, 2021
Pencil and watercolour on bristol cardboard
21 x 23 cm
8.2 x 9.1 in
° ° °
PILU, 2021
Pencil and watercolour on bristol cardboard
21 x 23 cm
8.2 x 9.1 in
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ALONSO SISTERS, 2021
Pencil and watercolour on bristol cardboard
21 x 23 cm
8.2 x 9.1 in
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